Combined marking-pot and stencil-brush inker.



,PATENTED AUG. 1, 190 5.

"J. B. LAUGHTON. v

COMBINED MARKING POT AN-D'STBNGIL BRUSH INKER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 24.1906- Wrificasuas'.

UNITED STATES PATENT orrron.

COMBINED MARKING-POT ANI: STENCIL-BRUSH INKER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. *1, 1905.

Application filed March 24, 1905. Serial No. 251,810.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OSEPH B. LAUGHTON, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Westfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Marking-Pot and Stencil-Brush Inker, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a combined markbrush taking an excessive amount of ink, and

all so that the stencil-brush inker is self supplying or replenishing.

The invention consists in parts made and combined as hereinafter fully described, and 7 set forth in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the improved combined marking-pot and stencil-brush inker. Fig. 2 is a central sectional view vertically through the same as taken on line 2 2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the utensil, showing the parts thereof in separated relation. Fig. 4cis a perspective view showing slight modification in the structure. 1

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all of the views.

In the drawings, A represents a marking pot or can, preferably made in the form of an upwardly-open cup and having about midway between its bottom and upper open edge a shelf B, made in the form of an internal annular flange horizontally arranged, as shown, and preferably secured in place by soldering between its outer edge and the inner wall of the receptacle. The marginal portion of this shelf may be formed with or have a downwardly-extending lip or flange a. The said shelf B has a plurality of perforations d d therethrough between its inner and outer edges.

C represents the inker for the stencil-brush, the same consisting of a layer f of any suit- I abletabsorbent materialsuch as felt, sponge,

apgoffcotton, textile fabric,.or other material having fitness to the purpose-such layer of absorbent having adjoined thereto and at the top side thereof a layer of foraminous material, preferably a coarse-mesh woven-wire fabric, and there is preferably provided also an underlying layer it of foraminous material, preferably the coarse-wire cloth, and this stencil-brush inker is made with a central hole z'to register with or about with the hole centrally through the annular shelf B. The layers of absorbent material and the coarsewire cloth are united so as to make the inker as an entirety by any suitable meanssuch, for instance, as small wire pins or staples j, which extend through and have interlocking or clenching engagements with the layers included in the inker. One or more wicks D are connected or adjoined with the absorbent layer f and extend from the inker downwardly through the central hole a in the shelf B into the ink contained in thebottom of the receptacle, through the agency of which-ink to the degree of saturation will be carried initially and constantly to the inker C.

m represents a ring having an upper end outwardly-projecting flange or lip m adjoined and preferably united by soldering to the portion of the upper layer of wire-cloth h at the margin of the central opening there' through, the main portion of this ring extending downwardly through the central opening in the shelf.

t represents a ring fitted within the upper open mouth of the receptacle and having its lower edge against or near the outer marginal portion of the inker G. and this ring t is preferably constructed at its top with a circularlycontinuous return-bent lip t inclosing the upper edge portion of the receptacle A, protecting the raw edge thereof, imparting a sightly appearance to the utensil and affording at its top uniting or bridging portion a desirablewidth to be borne against by the fingers for a downward forcing of the ring any excessive ink therein, such excluded ink running back to the bottom of the receptacle through the perforations (Z.

It will be noted as a peculiarity pertaining to this utensil that by marginal pressure against the inker G the portion of the upper wire-cloth layer between the central hole and its outer edge will become slightly crowned or convex, and it is found advantageous to establish this condition of the top wire-cloth layer in taking ink by the stencil-brush when a not profuse inking of the brush is required.

It has been deemed advantageous to have the foraminous annular shelf or flange between the top and bottom of the receptacle A constituted by a stiff, heavy, and coarse wireifabric, as represented in Fig. 4, thus affording all requisite rigidity to the support of the pad, which may or may not have the lower section 71 of the wire fabric as a constituent thereof. The outer marginal portion of this wire-fabric shelf is secured Within the receptacle A by soldering, and by reason of its extremely open-work character the utmost freedom of return flow of the excess ink will be permitted from the pad back to the bottom of the receptacle.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. In. a device of the character described, a potorcan formed with an apertured internal shelf between its top and bottom, an apertured layer of absorbent material on said shelf, and a wick adjoined to said absorbent material .and extending therefrom to the bottom of the receptacle.

2. In a device of the character described, a pot or can formed with an apertured internal shelf between its top and bottom, provided with a plurality of perforations therethrough, anapertured layer of absorbent material on said shelf, and a wick adjoined to said absorbent material and extending therefrom to the bottom of the receptacle.

3. In a device of the character described, a pot or can formed with a centrally-apertured internal shelf between its top and bottom, a layer of absorbent material on said shelf, a wick adjoined to said absorbent material and extending therefrom to the bottom of the receptacle, and a layer of foraminous material on the top of the said absorbent material and, together with such material, formed with an opening corresponding to the shelf-aperture.

4:. In a device of the character described, a potor can formed with a centrally-apertured internal shelf between its top and bottom, a layer of absorbent material on said shelf, a wick adjoined to said absorbent material and extending therefrom to the bottom of the receptacle, a layer of foraminous material on the top of said absorbent material, and, together. with such material, formed with an opening corresponding to the shelf-aperture,

and a ring fitted within the upper openingof the receptacle and adapted to be pushed downwardly for compression against the outer marginal portions of said combined layers.

5. .In a device of the character described, a pot or can formed with a centrally-apertured internal shelf between its top and bottom, a layer of foraminous material on the top of the said absorbent material and, together with such material, formed with acentral opening corresponding to the shelf-aperture, and a ring having an external flange adjoined to the portion of said layer of foraminous material at the margin of its central opening, and having the main portion thereof extending downwardly within the central opening in said shelf.

6. In a device of the character described, a pot or can formed with a centrally-apertured internal shelf between its top and bottom, a layer of foraminous material on the top of the said absorbent material and, together with such material, formed with a central opening corresponding to the shelf-aperture, a ring having an external flange adjoined to the portion of said layer of foraminous material at the margin of its central opening, and having the main portion thereof extending downwardly within the central opening in said shelf, and a ring fitted Within the upper opening of the receptacle and free to be pushed downwardly for compression against the outer marginal portions of said combined layers.

7. In a device of the character described, a circular pot or can formed with a centrallyapertured internal shelf between its top and bottom, a layer of absorbent material on said shelf, a wick ad joined to said absorbent material and extending therefrom to the bottom of the receptacle, a layer of foraminous material on the top of the said absorbent material, and, together with such material, formed with an opening corresponding to the shelf-aperture, and a ring fitted within the upper opening of the receptacle and having at its top a return-bent lip inclosing the upper edge portion of the receptacle, and said ring being free to be pushed downwardly for compression against the outer marginal portions of said combined layers.

8. In a device of the character described. a pot or can constructed with an apertured internal shelf between its top and bottom, and an apertured layer of absorbent material above, and supported by, said shelf.

9. In a device of the character described, a pot or can formed'with a centrally-apertured internal shelf between its top and bottom, provided with a plurality of perforations therethrough, upper and lower layers of openmesh woven wire and the intermediate layer of absorbent material, on said shelf, and one or more wicks connected with said absorbent material and extending therefrom through a layer of foraminous material of annular the central aperture of the said shelf to the penetrating the absorbent layer, for fastenbottom of the receptacle. I ing the said layers together.

10. In a device of the character described, Signed by me at Springfield, Massachua receptacle or holder having therewithin a setts, in presence of two subscribing Witnesses. layer of absorbent material 0t annular form, JOSEPH B- LAUGHTON form provided at the upper side of the said Witnesses: annular layer of absorbent material, and WM. S. BELLOWS,

means, engaged With the upper layer, and G. R. DRIsooLL. 

